People
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Thomas Pogge Leitner Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Political Science |
Having received his PhD in philosophy from Harvard, Thomas Pogge is Leitner Professor of Philosophy and International Affairs and founding Director of the Global Justice Program at Yale. Pogge is... |
Current Fellows
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Ashok Acharya 2012-2013 |
Ashok Acharya is Professor of Political Science and leads the Program on Global Justice at the Delhi School of Transnational Affairs, University of Delhi. He was Henry Hart Rice Visiting Associate... |
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Najid Ahmad 2020 |
Najid Ahmad’s research focuses on sustainable development, poverty, environmental economics, global warming and climate change. He holds a PhD degree in economics and is... |
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David Álvarez García 2008-2010 |
David Álvarez García received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain) with a dissertation on cosmopolitan and international justice. Before coming to Yale he... |
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Tendayi Bloom Postdoctoral Associate in the MacMillan Center |
Tendayi Bloom is a Postdoctoral Associate in the Global Justice Program at Yale. Her research explores the relationship of individual noncitizens with States. She also looks at the implications of... |
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Daniele Botti |
Daniele Botti graduated from the University of Milan (Italy) with a thesis on “John Rawls and International Justice: The Law of Peoples and its Philosophical Premises.” He earned a PhD in History... |
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Paula Casal |
Paula Casal is a Professor at ICREA (Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies) and at Universitat Pompeu Fabra’s Law Department, in Barcelona. She was a lecturer (and later Reader) at... |
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Maria Ginevra Cattaneo 2013 |
Maria Ginevra Cattaneo acts as an attorney in Milano and works on civil and commercial law, particularly on intellectual property law. She completed her PhD in Law and Technologies at the... |
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Sachin Chaturvedi 2009-2010 |
Sachin Chaturvedi is Director General at the Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS), a New Delhi-based autonomous Think-Tank. He was also a Global Justice Fellow at the... |
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Horman Chitonge |
Horman Chitonge is professor at the Centre for African Studies, and research associate at PRISM, School of Economics, University of Cape Town (UCT). He is a vising fellow at the... |
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Antonio Davila |
Antonio Dávila is a Venezuelan Professor in political theory and philosophy at the Pontifical Bolivarian University (Colombia), board member of Academics Stand Against Poverty (ASAP), and... |
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Özlem Denli |
Özlem Denli received her Ph.D in Political Science and International Relations from Oslo University (Norway). Her teaching and research focus on political philosophy, history of political... |
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Farsan Ghassim 2013-2015 |
Farsan Ghassim received a Bachelor of Science degree in Management from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). During his undergraduate studies, he interned with a Latin... |
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Joy Gordon 2010-2011 |
Joy Gordon is Professor of Political Philosophy at Fairfield University. She holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from Yale University and a J.D. from Boston University School of Law. Her areas of research... |
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James S. Henry |
James S. Henry is a leading economist, attorney, consultant, and investigative journalist, who has written and spoken widely on the problems of tax justice and development finance. He can be... |
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Dev Kar |
Dr. Dev Kar is the Chief Economist at Global Financial Integrity (GFI), a think tank and advocacy group in Washington DC. Dev has... |
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Francis Karugu |
Francis Karugu is an international development specialist with a mainstay in political economy analysis, development finance, impact assessment (monitoring and evaluation), market systems, and... |
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Bastiaan Kock |
Bastiaan Kock studied international relations & organisations and English language and culture at Leyden University. He is currently working in the realm of... |
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Dave Levin |
Dave Levin is the Founder and Executive Director of Refugee Open Ware (ROW). He is a social entrepreneur and impact investor specializing in the use of advanced technology to help those... |
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David Lighton |
David Lighton is an entrepreneur and Founder/ CEO of SendFriend, a FinTech startup using the blockchain to create faster, less expensive, and more inclusive international money transfers for... |
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Tienmu Ma 2011-2013 |
Tienmu Ma is a JD/PhD candidate at Yale Law School and the New York University Department of Philosophy. He has broad interests in legal and political philosophy, ranging from global justice to... |
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Xiaoyan Ma 2016-2017 |
Xiaoyan Ma is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Science and Technology in Beijing, visiting the Global Justice Program in 2016-17. She received her PhD at Nankai University... |
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Krishen Mehta |
Krishen Mehta is a writer, teacher, and speaker on issues of global tax justice. Prior to making tax justice his main focus, he was a partner with PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and served in their... |
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Zorka Milin |
Zorka Milin is a senior legal advisor with Global Witness, working to improve transparency and... |
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Pahlaj Moolio |
Pahlaj Moolio is a professor and associate dean at the Faculty of Mathematics, Sciences and Engineering, Paññāsāstra University of Cambodia. He is a... |
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Vanessa Neumann |
President and founder of Asymmetrica, a Latin... |
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Shmuel Nili 2012-2016 |
Shmuel (Shmulik) Nili is a Ph.D. student in political theory at Yale. His core research revolves around questions of global justice, mainly the democratic treatment of severely oppressive regimes... |
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Gorik Ooms 2009-2010 |
Gorik Ooms is a human rights lawyer, graduated from the Catholic University of Leuven in 1989. He is a Global Justice Fellow for the 2009–2010 academic year. During most of his professional career... |
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Jakob Schwab |
Jakob Schwab is an economist and researcher at the German Development Institute (Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik, GDI/DIE). He has received his Ph.D. jointly from the Johannes Gutenberg... |
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Khadija Sharife |
Based in South Africa, Khadija Sharife (LLM) is an award-winning investigative journalist and senior editor for Africa at Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (... |
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Esther Shubert |
Esther Shubert is a Ph.D student in the philosophy department at Yale University. Her research interests are in the area of global justice, with a primary focus on issues of financial integrity... |
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Jaap Spier Sr. Global Justice Fellow |
Jaap Spier (1950) graduated from Erasmus University (Rotterdam) 1973, has been attorney at the Bar of Rotterdam until 1977, lecturer of private law at Leyden University (1977 – 1981) and company... |
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Dominic Thomas-James |
Dr Dominic Thomas-James became a Fellow of Yale University’s Global Justice Program in 2020. He earned his Ph.D. from Queens’ College, University of Cambridge... |
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Diana Velica |
Diana Velica first joined the Global Justice Program in 2013 with a research project on the importance of tackling the global arms trade within the international development context. Her research... |
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Kate Wharton |
Kate Wharton is the Chief Operating Officer at Refugee Open Ware (ROW). She is an international development consultant and social intrapreneur. With four years in Deloitte... |
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Matti Ylönen |
Matti Ylönen is a researcher based in Helsinki, Finland, and he spent year 2016 as a visiting Fulbright-Schuman grantee at the Global Justice Program. Having followed tax... |